Thursday, June 24, 2010

If You Need Time I'll Give You Mine


Things we only realize post-mortem: a song can be the fault of the chapter you're editing all week (and the subject matter thereof).

<a href="http://danbandstra.bandcamp.com/track/if-you-need-time-ill-give-you-mine">If You Need Time I'll Give You Mine by Dan Bandstra</a>

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Honey Did You Make


Note that this song ends with an impersonation of someone barely keeping his head above the water. Here is a pictorial representation for good measure.


<a href="http://danbandstra.bandcamp.com/track/honey-did-you-make">Honey Did You Make by Dan Bandstra</a>

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

"Hupp" will go the song.




Not much sooner promised than delivered, at least a down payment. Here is the start of a new album, called "'Hupp' will go the song." There are no guaranties, but maybe one of the later songs will go "Hupp."

The first track is "The Good Ship Bessie May:"


<a href="http://danbandstra.bandcamp.com/album/hupp-will-go-the-song">The Good Ship Bessie May by Dan Bandstra</a>

Friday, June 4, 2010

The Old Mechanical




Roland Barthes: "A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem."
Thomas Mann: "A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
I never expected to hear such reasonable things coming from Europe. Here's a song:



At track number ten, that pretty much wraps up this album. No word yet on the next one.

Image sources: Wikipedia/Life, respectively.